Rocks & Minerals of the Pacific Coast: Your Way to Easily Identify Rocks & Minerals

by Dan R. Lynch, Bob Lynch

Overview

Get the perfect guide to rocks and minerals of the Pacific Coast!

Keep this tabbed booklet close at hand on your next rock-hunting adventure. Based on Dan R. Lynch and Bob Lynch’s best-selling field guides and featuring 52 of the most common and desirable rocks and minerals along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, the booklet is organized by rocks/minerals and then by general appearance for quick and easy identification. Narrow your choices by appearance, and view photos of just a few specimens at a time. The easy-to-use format means you’ll quickly find what you need to know. Plus, the quick guide is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the tear-resistant pages help to make the book durable in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591937753
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/17/2018
Series:	Adventure Quick Guides
Pages:	22
Sales rank:	515,943
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dan R. Lynch has a degree in graphic design with emphasis on photography from the Universityof Minnesota Duluth. But before his love of art and writing came a passion for rocks and minerals, developed during his lifetime growing up in his parents’ rock shop in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Combining the two aspects of his life seemed a natural choice, and he enjoys researching, writing about, and taking photographs of rocks and minerals. Working with his father, Bob Lynch, a respected veteran of Lake Superior’s agate-collecting community, Dan spearheads their series of rock and mineral field guides—definitive guidebooks that help amateurs “decode” the complexities of geology and mineralogy. He also takes special care to ensure that his photographs complement the text and always represent each rock or mineral exactly as it appears in person. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Julie, where he works as a writer and photographer.

Table of Contents

Rocks & Minerals List

Actinolite-Tremolite

Agate

Amphibole group

Andesite

Apophyliite

Basalt

Beach Glass

Calcite

Celadonite

Chalcedony

Chert

Chlorite group

Clay

Concretions

Conglomerate/Breccia

Diabase/Gabbro

Diorite/Granodiorite

Epidote

Feldspar group

Fluorapatite

Fossils, animal

Garnet group

Gneiss

Goethite/limonite

Gold

Granite

Hematite

Ilmenite

Jade

Jasper

Limestone

Magnetite

Mica group

Mudstone/Siltstone

Obsidian

Olivine group

Petrified Wood

Porphyry

Pyrite

Pyroxene group

Quartz

Quartzite

Rhyolite

Sandstone

Schist

Serpentine

Serpentinite

Shale

Soapstone

Talc

Wacke

Zeolites